What is the SMC shared network drive?

    Students, faculty, and staff at Saint Mary's College are given access to various shared network drives, depending on their department and materials needed. The file server for shared network drives is mavis.

    Shared network drives are accessible from any networked computer on campus. All students, faculty, and staff have access to the shared network drive named SMC (also known as the P: drive). Several folders will be visible when you open the SMC network drive:

    • Courses - course-specific items
    • Departments - departments that have shared accounts
    • Software Distribution - includes software that Saint Mary's has licensed for campus-wide use, such as the College-provided virus protection software
    • Student Groups - student groups that have shared accounts

    For each department/group that has an account on SMC, a folder will be visible. All members of the Saint Mary's community will be able to see the listing of folders for departments/groups. The contents of the folders in SMC will be visible only to the individuals with permission to view them.

    Department/group accounts may have a subfolder named Public that will be accessible to all members of the Saint Mary's community. The decision to offer items in a Public folder is up to each individual department/group.

    Connecting to the SMC drive - Instructions if your computer is on the ADSMC domain (most Windows XP desktops)

    College-owned Windows XP desktop computers on the ADSMC domain should automatically mount the SMC shared network drive on mavis, unless you are using a shared account to log in.

    Connecting to the SMC drive - Instructions if your computer is not on the ADSMC domain (most Windows XP laptops)

    All students, faculty, and staff at Saint Mary's College are provided with 1GB of disk space on our network to save their files. This space is accessible from any networked computer on campus, and is commonly referred to as a personal network drive or the H: drive.

    1. Click on the Start button in the lower left corner of your screen.

    2. Move the mouse over My Computer to highlight it, then click the right mouse button and select Map Network Drive...

    3. Select P: from the Drive: pop-up menu.

    4. In the Folder: field, type the following:
      \\mavis.saintmarys.edu\SMC

      5. Note: if you wanted to map a specific folder on the SMC shared network drive, you can do so. For example, if you wanted to map the Public folder inside the Infotech folder, which is in the Departments folder on the SMC shared drive, you would type in \\mavis.saintmarys.edu\SMC\Departments\Infotech\Public - if a folder has a space in the name, please include that space in the path name.

    5. Make sure that Reconnect at login is checked.

    6. Click Finish.

    7. Type in your Saint Mary's e-mail address (username@saintmarys.edu) and password when prompted.

    8. Do NOT check Remember my password.

    9. Click OK.

    10. A window displaying your network drive should appear.

    11. You can find the shared network drive by going to the Start menu and selecting My Computer. The network drives should be listed at the bottom of the window.

    12. With Windows XP, the shared network drive will automatically mount every time you log in to your computer while on the campus network.

    Instructions if you are using a shared computer (more than one person logs into the computer) with a departmental account (not your individual username)

    If you receive the error "H:\ is not accessible. Access is denied." you may be using a departmental computer that has a shared login rather than an individual login (meaning everyone who uses that computer logs in with the same account name rather than their personal username and password). If that is the case, follow the steps below to access your personal network drive.

    1. Click on the Start button in the lower left corner of your screen.

    2. Move the mouse over My Computer to highlight it, then click the right mouse button and select Map Network Drive...

    3. Click on the link Connect using a different user name.

    4. Type in your user name and password when prompted.

    5. Click OK.

    6. Select P: from the Drive: pop-up menu.

    7. In the Folder: field, type the following:
      \\mavis.saintmarys.edu\SMC

      8. Note: if you wanted to map a specific folder on the SMC shared network drive, you can do so. For example, if you wanted to map the Public folder inside the Infotech folder, which is in the Departments folder on the SMC shared drive, you would type in \\mavis.saintmarys.edu\SMC\Departments\Infotech\Public - if a folder has a space in the name, please include that space in the path name.

    8. Make sure that Reconnect at login is NOT checked.

    9. Click Finish.

    10. Type in your user name and password when prompted. (If the user name and password do not work, type in your Saint Mary's e-mail address (username@saintmarys.edu) and password.

    11. Do NOT check Remember my password.

    12. Click OK.

    13. A window displaying your network drive should appear.

    14. You can find the shared network drive by going to the Start menu and selecting My Computer. The network drives should be listed at the bottom of the window.

    If you encounter problems connecting to the SMC shared network drive

    • Faculty and staff can contact the Helpdesk at 574-284-4715 or helpdesk@saintmarys.edu. If you have a laptop computer, you may also visit the Helpdesk in 113 Haggar College Center. The Helpdesk is open 8:00am - 5:00pm Monday through Friday.

Last Modified November 27, 2012